View of a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific wedge snowplow with a gondola car parked in the yards at Limon (Lincoln County), Colorado. A headlight is mounted on the top of the plow. Letters on the plow read: "R.I 95598." Railroad stock cars are in the...

Colorado & Southern steam locomotive # 638 with a tender is stopped near a coal loading conveyor in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. A wedge snowplow is mounted on the front of the locomotive. A wheelbarrow is near the engine.

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive 478 (2-8-2) ,with the "San Juan" passenger train, is stopped at Gato (Archuleta County), Colorado. People on the platform in front of the depot include the conductor, identified as...

Locomotives push a wedge snow plow, the "snow king," over deep snow on tracks beside telegraph poles in Minnesota. Wolves howl in the moonlight near railroad tracks, travellers approach a log cabin in the snow, and North American Indians on...

Steam rises from a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive with a wedge plow on tracks beside probably the Animas River near Silverton in San Juan County, Colorado. Shows the silhouette of a man near the plowed tracks.

Two Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad "San Juan" trains, 215 westbound and 216 eastbound, are side by side on tracks in La Boca (La Plata County), Colorado. Smoke rises from narrow gauge locomotive 488 (2-8-2), it has a pilot mounted wedge...

Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad narrow gauge locomotive 473 (2-8-2) on a freight train in Silverton (San Juan County), Colorado. Shows a pilot mounted wedge snowplow on the locomotive. Snow is in the valley and on the...

View of a marker that commemorates the Sand Creek Massacre in Kiowa County, Colorado. The marker consists of a wedge shaped piece of granite that is on a rectangular piece of concrete elevated on two cylindrical supports. The marker reads: "Sand...

Close up view of a marker that commemorates the Sand Creek Massacre in which United States troops killed some 200 Native Americans (Cheyenne and Arapaho), two thirds of whom were women and children, Kiowa County, Colorado. The marker consists of a...

Water floods storefronts in Pueblo, Colorado. The upper parts of the brick buildings have ornate cornices, and one building is in a flatiron shape. Signs read: "Stark Clothing Co.," "The Wonder Store," and "Central Studio." A streetlamp is by a...

Colorado and Southern rotary snow plow number "99201" is followed by locomotive number "641" with a wedge plow in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The locomotive pulls a tender and caboose "10581." Lettering on the railroad equipment reads:...

View of a building at 2266 Broadway Street (corner Arapahoe Street) in the Five Points Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The wedge shaped building has a store downstairs, apartments on the second floor, and a cornice on the north wall. Vending...

Two Colorado School of Mines students compete in a hand drilling contest with a mallet and wedge or spike on a stone block on Engineer's Day, in Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado. Mike Lacy is on the left in a plaid shirt; spectators look on. One...

A Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company train with narrow gauge locomotive 478 stops at the yard in Durango (La Plata County), Colorado. The locomotive is equipped with a wedge snow plow. Men, a truck, tracks, the depot, rock bluffs, a...

View of a Coudersport and Port Allegany Railroad snow plow on a siding near railroad tracks in Coudersport (Potter County), Pennsylvania. The plow consists of a wooden railroad car with a cupola and porthole windows and a metal wedge plow mounted...

Men stand in front of Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company wedge snowplow 066, pushed through deep snow by locomotive 1167, at Derrick (Rio Grande County), Colorado. Mountains are in the distance.

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company locomotives 495, with a caboose, and locomotive 498, with a wedge snowplow, stop at Chama (Rio Arriba County), New Mexico. Shows the depot and shop buildings. Cars and a truck are parked near the depot.

View of a Colorado & Southern freight train in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. Steam locomotive # 638 has a wedge plow mounted on the front. The consist includes a flat car piled with lumber, boxcars and a caboose. Houses, and snow covered Mount...

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company locomotive 499 vents smoke near Chama (Rio Arriba County), New Mexico, during a Rocky Mountain Railroad Club excursion. A wedge snowplow is on the locomotive; cabooses and passenger cars make up the...

View of a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company passenger train by the water tank at Hermosa (La Plata County), Colorado. Locomotive 478 has a wedge snowplow. Frame buildings are near the tank. A logo on the tank reads: "Rio Grande, Royal...

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company locomotive 478, with a wedge snowplow, blows smoke at Hermosa (La Plata County), Colorado; passenger coaches and freight cars make up the consist. Mountains are in the distance.

View of a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company freight train by a "Railroad Crossing" sign near Carbon Junction (La Plata County), Colorado. Locomotive 489, with a wedge plow, vents smoke. A gas station and highway are in the distance.

Men, some in uniform, and members of the Woodmen of the World, stand at attention at the dedication of a funeral monument and statue of Fred A. Falkenburg, in the Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado. Falkenburg was co-founder of Woodmen of the...